What to do and how to do it; the American boys handy book (1920)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 416
Fishing, 387 ing manner to the fish, and if there are any pickerel, with their voracious appetites to spur them on, they cannot often restrain themselves, but needs must seize what, to them, appears to be a fat, shiny, young fish, but which they learn to their sorrow to be a hard metal snare (Fig.… … the cruel barbsdeeper into its cartilaginous mouth,and make escape impossible. Finding, as it supposes, a hiddenenemy in the water, the bird seeksrefuge on shore, where its master gleefullyunhooks the fish, and starts the bird on an-other trip. The Pistol Reporteris a contrivance invented by a…
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